At the dedication of the State Fair Indian Village in the 1930s, Cornell provided trees in a special ceremony that marked the partnership between the university and the confederacy. "This event will honor both past and future ties."Ĭornell's formal relationship with the nations of the Iroquois Confederacy began in the 1920s when Cornell established an Indian Extension Program that emphasized agricultural and home economics training for Native peoples in New York. "Cornell is a facilitator and conduit for the ongoing partnership between Native and non-Native peoples in New York state," Mt. Mark Alger, deputy state commissioner of agriculture, and Peter Cappuccilli, director of the state fair, also will attend. Dullea, vice president for university relations. Pleasant, director of Cornell's American Indian Program and Henrik N. Chabot, associate dean of CALS William Lacy, director of Cornell Cooperative Extension David L. Lund, dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) Brian F.
Representing the Six Nations Agricultural Society, which manages the Indian Village at the fair, will be Lloyd Elm, the group's president Norman Jemison, village superintendent Clara Hill, the society's clerk and vice presidents for each of the Six Nations: the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora.Ĭornell participants will be Rawlings Daryl B. The ceremony, planned for the Turtle Mound in the village, will include the dedication of trees given to the Haudenosaunee by Cornell, the presentation of a Seneca name to Cornell President Hunter Rawlings and a Victory Dance by members of the Six Nations Agricultural Society. A formal ceremony to reaffirm the long-standing partnership between Cornell and the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) will be held at the Indian Village on the New York State Fair grounds on Indian Day, Friday, Aug.
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